[Distutils] Where is the setuptools source repository?

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Thu Jul 2 15:58:32 CEST 2009


On Jul 2, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Jul 2, 2009, at 6:15 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
>
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> Interesting.  I didn't realize that this changed.  This works at  
>>> least as far back as Python 2.4, so if it changed,
>>
>> Chatting with Christian Theune, I believe this is because you put  
>> all your packages in 'src' directory. I don't like to lay my code  
>> out like that, and it should work with just your python packages in  
>> the root of the distribution.
>
> FWIW, I've found that buildout /only/ seems to work with your code  
> in src (or some subdirectory of your main directory).  I can't  
> remember the details but I think I've posted about that issue before.


buildout works fine. The problem is the zope.testing test runner,  
which will find tests in your eggs directory if your buildout is in  
your software path.

Jim

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